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1.1     ! root        1: .TH DICTION 1  "18 January 1983"
        !             2: .SH NAME
        !             3: diction,explain \- print wordy sentences; thesaurus for diction
        !             4: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             5: .B diction
        !             6: [
        !             7: .B \-ml
        !             8: ] [
        !             9: .B \-mm
        !            10: ] [
        !            11: .B \-n
        !            12: ] [
        !            13: .B \-f
        !            14: pfile ]
        !            15: file ...
        !            16: .br
        !            17: .B explain
        !            18: .LP
        !            19: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            20: .I Diction
        !            21: finds all sentences in a document that contain phrases
        !            22: from a data base of bad or wordy diction.
        !            23: Each phrase is bracketed with [ ].
        !            24: Because
        !            25: .I diction
        !            26: runs
        !            27: .I deroff
        !            28: before looking at the text, formatting
        !            29: header files should be included as part of the input.
        !            30: The default macro package
        !            31: .B \-ms
        !            32: may be overridden with the flag
        !            33: .B \-mm.
        !            34: The flag
        !            35: .B \-ml
        !            36: which causes 
        !            37: .B deroff
        !            38: to skip lists, should be used if the document contains many lists of
        !            39: non-sentences.
        !            40: The user may supply her/his own pattern file to be used in addition to the default file
        !            41: with
        !            42: .B \-f
        !            43: .I pfile.
        !            44: If the flag
        !            45: .B \-n
        !            46: is also supplied the default file will be suppressed.
        !            47: .PP
        !            48: .I Explain
        !            49: is an interactive thesaurus for the phrases found by diction.
        !            50: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !            51: deroff(1)
        !            52: .SH BUGS
        !            53: Use of non-standard formatting macros may cause
        !            54: incorrect sentence breaks.
        !            55: In particular,
        !            56: .I diction
        !            57: doesn't grok
        !            58: .B \-me.

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